Officer Shoots Armed Man In Downtown Baltimore

BALTIMORE (WJZ)– Baltimore City Police responded to an officer-involved shooting.

It happened conscionable earlier 2 Thursday greeting successful the 400 artifact of E. Baltimore Street.

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Officers were helping businesses successful that artifact close, erstwhile they saw a radical of radical astatine the intersection of E. Baltimore and Holliday Streets.

There appeared to beryllium an altercation that was escalating from a verbal altercation to a carnal altercation.

The serviceman saw this and walked toward the individuals.

As the serviceman approached, determination was a fishy that produced a firearm and pointed it astatine the radical of individuals and the officer.

According to Police Commissioner Michael Harrison, what constabulary saw connected assemblage cam video was that arsenic the individuals saw the fishy they began to run, and arsenic the fishy saw the serviceman helium began to tally connected E. Baltimore St.

The serviceman gave pursuit and the fishy turned to the serviceman and that serviceman fired aggregate times astatine the fishy hitting him.

The fishy was taken to daze trauma and taken into surgery. His injuries look to beryllium non-life threatening.

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Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott was connected the country and said “I americium grateful that nary 1 was critically injured present contiguous but I privation to beryllium precise wide successful nary circumstances is it good for a grown antheral to constituent a weapon astatine a radical of people, fto unsocial a radical of women.”

Police Commissioner Michael Harrison went connected to say.. ” This is an implicit brazen enactment of unit to bash it not lone with a assemblage of radical arsenic the politician stated that could’ve been changeable and oregon killed but close determination successful the beingness of constabulary officers…this speaks to the willingness to usage guns and deficiency of fearfulness for consequences for their actions.”

Commissioner Harrison and PIO are connected country of a Police Involved Shooting successful the 400 Block of E. Baltimore Street successful the Central District. Additional details volition beryllium provided arsenic they go available.

— Baltimore Police (@BaltimorePolice) August 12, 2021

Baltimore Police responding to an serviceman progressive shooting connected E Baltimore St. precise adjacent to City Hall & Police Headquarters. All surrounding streets presently closed. Police person yet to merchandise immoderate much accusation astir the incident. @wjz pic.twitter.com/Onk4O106DY

— Rachel Menitoff (@RachelMenitoff) August 12, 2021

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This the 2nd police-involved shooting successful Baltimore this week.